Cut your ingest time significantly by using Prelude to get your media into your editing system. Prelude automates this important stage in post-production, letting you ingest individual media files or parts of media files, create multiple copies on different drives, batch-transcode, batch-rename and batch-assign metadata to whole groups of clips. You can even automatically verify that the files have arrived safely.

Learn how to prepare hundreds of images and save them in different file formats at once using the Image Processor script. Explore entering and adjusting Image Processor options such as file location and type, and working with image size. Learn more from the full course on lynda.com.

Join Justin Seeley, staff author at lynda.com, to learn automation techniques, shortcuts, and workflow enhancements to help you rapidly move from mockup to website using Adobe Photoshop. Seeley will reveal image optimization techniques while debunking web resolution myths. He'll also help you learn how to use Photoshop to work with HTML and CSS files, and show how these tools can help improve your workflow. He may even have time to sneak in a few new Photoshop features. In this session, you'll learn how to: • Use layer comps to simulate interactivity and multipage layouts• Create Retina display–caliber graphics using actions and batch processing• Build UI libraries with shape layers• Create image sprites• Work with pixel grid alignment and design with grid systems

Even with the fantastic new Blur Gallery in Photoshop CS6, the Lens Blur filter is an essential tool when a high degree of control is needed to selectively (and realistically) blur an image. In this video tutorial, Julieanne uses the Lens Blur filter with a depth map to to create a series of images that appear as if they were captured with a tilt-shift lens. Julieanne also demonstrates how to quickly apply this filter to multiple images using actions and batch processing.

If you’ve ever had to edit numerous audio files one by one, then this episode is going to make you happy. We’re going to show you how to Batch Process as many files as you want out to different formats including sample type, format settings and and the same time, apply any process that you’ve saved as a favorite! In our example we’ll Stretch and Pitch so each file will end up with the exact same length regardless how long the original recording was.

Wish you could render After Effects comps in the background? Wish you could create a watch folder to batch convert media? Wish you had a 64-bit capable application to do all of these things? Well, Adobe Media Encoder is all of that and more. In this episode, Dennis delves into what he thinks are the hidden gems of this under-appreciated application.